New uniform shots and profiles have been posted for the 2011-12 Washington Redskins Cheerleaders. Click here to learn more about the team!

Rookie Michele and veterans Jessica and Talmesha

The Suns Dancers recently unveiled their new outfits during a fashion show at US Airways Center. Click here for photos from the event. And click here to check out a video.

By James Edward Bates
Sunherald.com
Sep. 24, 2011

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NEW ORLEANS — Three South Mississippi women are enjoying their turn as professional cheerleaders for the New Orleans Saints.

Chastity McLemore, 25, Jerami Goodman, 23, and Kristina Williams, 20, are members of the Saintsations.

The 32-member cheerleading team stays busy performing at Saints home games and attending events throughout the area.

All three graduated from South Mississippi high schools. McLemore graduated from Picayune. Goodman graduated from Long Beach, and Williams graduated from Pearl River Central.

McLemore is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi and recently earned her masters in education from William Carey University.

In addition to being a Saintsation, she also is a teacher at Biloxi High, where she sponsors the cheerleading squad.

“I absolutely love being a Saintsation. It’s an amazing experience and I love just being on the field with our amazing New Orleans fans,” said McLemore. “It’s always been a dream of mine to be a Saintsation.

“When I was getting my masters in education, I thought I might as well try and fulfill that dream.”

Now in her first year as a Saintsation, Williams grew up in the Carriere community and attends Pearl River Community College.

The Picayune resident plans to transfer to Southern Miss and major in elementary education. She plans to teach and coach high school cheerleaders.

“My most favorite part about being a Saintsation is just representing Picayune and all of Who Dat nation. It’s fun,” said Williams. “This is the top-notch. You want to be a cheerleader and you want to go to the highest and being an NFL cheerleader is the best.”

Performing as a Saintsation for her second year, Goodman is a resident of Long Beach.

She was a Dixie Darling at Southern Miss and decided to try out for the team after graduating college.

“I’ve always wanted to become a pro cheerleader. I’ve actually danced my whole life, but this is the closest thing to actually being a professional dancer,” said Goodman. “It’s a great experience.

“I’ve been on it (team) since last year and I’ve done so many things. I love the fans. I love performing for the fans at the games.

“I love being from Mississippi, getting support there and from Louisiana.”

According to their official website, Saintsations have visited troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, appeared on TV with Dr. Phil and Bill O’Reilly, and have been published in Sports Illustrated, Maxim and FHM magazines.

To girls who may aspire to one day follow in their footsteps, Goodman says, “Keep up the good work, practice hard and you will succeed.”

New profiles have been posted for the Director and members of the Flight Crew Cheerleaders. Click here to learn all about the ladies!

By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa with Megan Johnson
The Boston Herald
September 23, 2011

Here’s football hero Doug Flutie’s daughter, Alexa, all — ahem — grown up!

Alexa, a New England Patriots cheerleader, and her teammate Brianna Kounelas are the Miss Septembers in the pep squad’s 2012 swimsuit calendar. And while Dougie’s daughter said the bathing suit shoot in Aruba in April was a real day at the beach, she’s more of a fan of the pompom gals’ game uniforms than her purple bikini.

“I have to say, the regular uniform you see on the posters is a favorite,” Alexa told the Track. “But so is what we call ‘The Elvis,’ which has bell-bottoms, flared-out sleeves and it’s all in sequins. It’s very cool, and I’m sure we’ll break it out when it gets a little cooler.”

Flutie said it was her girlhood dream to be a Pats cheerleader and one day cheer for her dad. But the year Doug rejoined the Patriots, Alexa was only 17 and was ineligible to try out.

“So I tried out every year I was in college and didn’t make it, but this year was my year,” she said.

Alexa said she’s not cheering over the fact that the siss-boom-bah squad will be at home Sunday when Tom Brady [stats] & Co. head to the hinterlands to play the Buffalo Bills. Because, as you know, her dad was the Bills’ QB, and she has a few fond memories of Buffalo — especially Doug’s local fave, Uncle Joe’s Diner.

“My dad really adopted Uncle Joe’s when he was there,” said Alexa, who teaches dance and cheerleading since graduating from Dean College. “So we adopted it like he did. The people were so friendly and they made a great turkey dinner.”

In fact, the Flutie family popped into the Buffalo diner a couple of weeks ago when Doug, wife Laurie and Alexa traveled up to London, Ontario, to watch Alexa’s BF, Everett homey Peter Giannikopoulos, play wide receiver for the University of Western Ontario’s Mustangs.

“I actually met (Peter) in a club in Boston and he asked me out the following Sunday,” Alexa told the Track, “He only knew my first name, so when he came to the house to pick me up and he saw my dad in the kitchen he finally put it all together. It was pretty funny.”

Greetings, sports fans! As promised, I’ve got the goods on the latest Clippers Spirit photo shoot. (Sadly, this may be my last Clippers field trip, as I think I managed to simultaneously piss off at least 2/3 of the team. More on that later.) For now, let’s just enjoy, shall we?

So this photo shoot took place at the Clippers practice facility. I’d never been there before. And even though it was pretty close to a Target store I visit fairly often, I’d never noticed it before. Nice place. Snazzy! Lots of cool toys.

This is also where they filmed “Blake Like Me” for Norm MacDonald’s new show. If you haven’t seen it, click here. It’s hilarious. (Mostly. It sort of fizzles at the end.)

Once inside, I ran into Audrea, the team’s director, and followed her down the hall to where they were all set up for hair and makeup.

Audrea was there, of course, and her sister Adrianne, who always assists with this kind of thing. The photographer was busy setting up in the gym, and there was also a small crew there to do interviews for the dancers’ video profiles to go on the website. The dancers had staggered arrival times, so there were only a few there at first. Since there wasn’t much going on, I took a few minutes to poke around. There was the obligatory trophy/award case. There was a big training room will all sorts of cardio and weight machines. There was the basketball court, of course. And there was a room where I assume the guys watch game videos/soaps/talk shows, or whatever.

There was a box in the corner where I found a couple of intriguing items, which I would’ve smuggled out of there, except for stealing is wrong.

One of them was an oversize basketball. It was the size of a small beach ball. Since it was obviously too big to go through the hoop, I don’t know what it was there for. The other thing was DeAndre’s hand. A life-size, laminated cut out of the Clippers center’s left hand, affixed to a 3 foot pole. I was instantly fascinated by this thing. I carried it around for a while, asking people to shake my hand, gimmie five, and talk to the hand because the face ain’t listenin’. I thought this was hilarious.

You know how when you think something’s funny and no one else does? Yeah, it was like that.

I found it even more hilarious when I discovered its purpose. The coaches or trainers or whoever use it during practice to simulate the reach of a big guy like DeAndre or Blake or Chris Kaman. I have this picture in my head of a five foot tall trainer running around waving that hand over his head, squealing like a girl, while the team pelts him with basketballs. That’s probably not how they use it, but there was no one around to provide a proper explanation.

All of the girls went through makeup first. Smokey eyes and red lips for everyone!

Meanwhile, the Maury Povich show was playing on the flat screen. Who even knew this show was still on tv? It was one of those paternity test episodes. We were ALL relieved to find out that Tavares isn’t the baby’s daddy.

Of course, nobody was more relieved than Tavares.

The next step was hair. I am sort of fascinated by the whole hair styling process. I find it interesting that a key step in making a good hairdo is to first make it look like squirrels are nesting in it.

Gina is the stylist. She does not approve of Bump-its.

Somehow I always miss the part where goes from looking like this, to looking all smooth and polished.

After hair and makeup, the girls got dressed in their new costumes. I am in LOVE with these dresses. I believe I have gone on record before as being a fan of a well-placed ruffle or two. (In moderation, of course. Nobody wants to see an entire dance team fixed up like Little Bo Peep.)

I totally dig this twist on the jersey dress. If you ask me, the ruffles make the dress. Looooove it. Can’t wait to see it on.

So I’m sitting there, thinking happy little thoughts. I love photo shoots. I have an extremely large basketball. I have DeAndre’s hand. I got to see the team facilities. The girls have new dresses. Tavares is single man. Hey if it weren’t for this lockout, I wouldn’t know about any of this stuff. Silver linings!

Unfortunately, I made the mistake of voicing my sentiments out loud:

“Hey, is it wrong that I’m sort of HAPPY about the lockout?”

SILENCE.

“What?”

DEAFENING SILENCE.

Expressions ranging from completely stone-faced to “Oh no she DI’NT.” With a smattering of “This chick has lost her damn mind.”

Wow, I think I just offended the whole team and the director in one fell swoop.

Katrina was all “WHAT??? NO! We want to dance!”

So I immediately started backpedaling: “Um…what I meant to say was I’m glad about it right now because we have all this extra stuff for the website, but it’s not like I want the lockout to last. I mean, I hope it’s over, like, next week. Or today, even…”

It was too late. I was drowned out by a chorus of girls discussing how the main thing about being on the team is dancing and if there aren’t going to be any games, they might have to bust into the Staples Center and dance anyway. Even if the place is empty.

Thank goodness it was time for the shooting to begin. I for one was more than ready for a change of subject.

The photographer did the girls’ individual photos first.

Jacy

Shannon

Brittany

Anasheh

Ariana

After that, they did some groupings for upcoming features for Clippers.com.

Katie and Jocelyn are both from Utah.

Jacy and Katrina are roomates.

These are the Pac 10 girls.
Or maybe it’s Pac 12. I don’t know. I’m confused.

While some girls were shooting, others were doing their interviews.

But that still left plenty of time for hijinks.

Bianca’s other job is ninja assassin

Bianca, Katie, and Jessie

Ariana, Anasheh, Rachel, Bianca, Katrina, Jacy, Jessie, Michelle, and Becca.

No dancers were harmed during the course of this filming.

Jessie (really hoping Kellie doesn’t get that lipstick on her.)

FAIL.
Ok, let’s try that again.

I don’t know what they’re doing either.

Blondes have to stick together

After that, they did one big group photo. Check out the finished product! (Click on it to see it BIGGER.)

And then everyone changed clothes, veterans in shorts, rookies in skirts.

The veterans had been through this before, and they knew whichever group was ready first, would shoot first and – most importantly – could leave first. So they made sure they were the first ones out of the gate.

Anasheh, Katrina, Kellie, Jocelyn, Bianca, Brittany, and Rhea

The rookies were next:

Sara, Ariana, Jacy, Shannon, Jessie, Rachel, Michelle, Becca, and Katie

And then the shoot ended, as these things normally do, with people gradually drifting out the door and dancers headed to IN-N-Out or wherever since they probably hadn’t eaten anything that day.

Of course, I took lots more photos than these. You can see the rest of them on my flickr page. [Click here.]

I don’t *think* they’re mad at me anymore. Then again they might be, after they see some of these photos. I may have to keep a low profile for a while.

By Vince Rembulat
The Manteca Bulletin
September 22, 2011

Angel Herrera is the newest Warrior Girl.

She was named last week to the dance squad of the National Basketball Association’s Golden State Warriors.

“I was so excited to discover I made (the Warrior Girls),” said Herrera Wednesday at Dance and Cheer Stars, where she also teaches the boys hip-hop class.

The 2010 graduate of Manteca High became the latest from the Manteca studio to earn a spot on the sidelines of a major professional sports franchise.

Harmony Flores Rebeiro, owner and operator of Dance Stars, was the first. She spent two years as a Raiderette.

Jonni Rogers and Jessica Maxwell are currently cheerleaders for the Oakland Raiders. Rogers is in her fourth year as a Raiderette while Maxwell is in her second year.

Michelle Breitmaier and Maggie Schreiber were both San Francisco 49ers’ Gold Rush cheerleaders.

Herrera, 19, is just the second from Dance Stars to make it on an NBA squad. Althea Ochoa was once a member of the Sacramento Kings’ Royal Court dancers.

Angel Herrera, who is the daughter of James and Myrna Herrera of Manteca, credited Flores Rebeiro and others for helping her prepare for the Warrior Girl tryouts.

On July 30, Herrera, who specializes in Jazz and hip-hop, was among the nearly 250 aspiring dancers who made the auditions held at the Sports Club-San Ramon.

She and her sister had previously tried out for the Los Angeles Clippers dance squad. Herrera, who spent three years on the Manteca High cheer squad, was among the final cuts.

She soon discovered that the Warrior Girl tryouts would be a tedious weeding out process that included narrowing the field to 30 finalists who, in turn, would be sent to a month-long boot camp.

Those who made it through the four-hour, two-days-a-week sessions then took part in the beauty pageant-style finals held at Oracle Arena.

“This was the first time (the selection process) was done this way,” Herrera said. “One of the new owners did it that way with his previous team.”

Flores Rebeiro and Rogers attended the event consisting of swimsuit, formal wear and dance.

With 17 available spots, Herrera knew it would be tough to make the squad, especially with 13 returning Warrior Girls among the 30 finalists.

“That left only four slots,” she said.

As one of four rookies, Herrera noted that her selection was also bittersweet.

“During that month in boot camp, we all became real close,” she said. “We even became best friends.”

Despite the current NBA lockout, Herrera will still be kept busy with her Warrior Girls obligations. She just inked her contract and has plenty of practices, photo shoots, and public appearances ahead.

She’s looking forward to it.

Everyday Health is a is a new weekly tv series airing on ABC television stations across the country. The show profiles people who are either facing a health crisis or are close to someone facing a life-altering health event, and they are not wasting time helping others in a similar situation. Each program addresses a medical condition, sometimes includes a celebrity guest, and always provides a surprise reveal for the person profiled. On this week’s episode, host Ethan Zohn (remember the curly haired soccer dude from Survior: Africa?) brings some special people to meet the ChivaGirls and perform at halftime during a Chivas home game. Click here to check your local listings and watch the program! (In Los Angeles, the episode airs on KABC at 1pm on Sunday)

The Tennessee Titans Cheerleaders calendar release party took place last night at Cabana in Nashville, TN. All 25 ladies showcased their swim wear that is displayed in the calendar. Each spectator received a calendar and the ladies autographed the calendars for the fans after the show. Thanks to TTC alum Sissy, we have a few photos from the event!

The team has a new squad photo, but no names yet. Stay tuned for the scoop on who is who.